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About

Brian Kelly gave a brief 3 minute talk on Education: Is it about 'cradling happiness' or 'making us anxious'? at a Purpos/ed Summit for Instigators which was held at Conference 21, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield on 30^th April 2011.

Slides

Education: Is it about 'cradling happiness' or 'making us anxious'?

[MS PowerPoint 97/2000 format] - [MS PowerPoint 97/2000 format] (with audio)

Acknowledgements

The photograph used on slide two entitled "Hippie Carnival Arambol (Goa)" was taken by 'PeterQ' and is available on Flickr. I am grateful for permission to use this image.

The photograph used on slide three entitled "Anxious" was taken by 'Phoney Nickle' and is available on Flickr under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence. I am grateful for permission to use this image.

Biographical Details

Brian Kelly has been involved in Web development since January 1993, when he helped to established a Web site at the University of Leeds (one of the first institutional Web sites in the UK). Since 1996 Brian has been employed at UKOLN, a national centre of expertise in digital information management based at the University of Bath in the UK.

Brian makes active use of a variety of Social Web tools. If you would like to read more about his professional activities you can subscribe to the UK Web Focus blog which is available at http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/ or follow his Twitter account - briankelly.